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Thank you for sending us your evidence for successfully completing Stage 2 Raising Awareness about single-use plastic. We are so grateful for your hard work and think you and your pupils are amazing!
It’s great that you have completed Stage 2, but please don’t stop there… we really hope you strive to make it as a Plastic Clever School by completing Stage 3.
In Stage 3 your school works to cut down its use of single-use plastics, particularly the BIG 4 items (bottles, disposable cups + lids, straws and bags), and encourages the use of reusables among staff and pupils.
Suggested Steps:
Step 1: Take action against the single-use BIG 4
- Identify where a reusable alternative to alternative to ONE of the BIG 4 might be ‘swapped in’
- Try and provide access to tap water, water fountains and washing facilities (when safe)
- Encourage the use of reusables among pupils and staff
- Where single-use plastics can’t be avoided, provide information and recycling facilities
Steps 2, 3 and 4
- Repeat Step 1 three times, each time taking action against a different BIG 4 item
NB. where single-use plastics can’t be avoided, provide information and recycling facilities
Step 5: Let Kids Against Plastic know
- Send us a photo of your good work to gain your Plastic Clever School status
To help you with your amazing work, we’ve linked to some resources to help you successfully achieve Plastic Clever School status – we hope you find them useful.
Printable Resources
An A4 Poster about why single-use cups + lids should be avoided.
An A4 poster about the issues with single-use plastic bottles.
An A4 poster which looks at why we should avoid single-use plastic straws if we can
An A4 poster which looks at single-use plastic bags and their environmental impact
A bank of facts about plastic pollution to support your work on eliminating BIG 4 items.
A child-friendly Stage 3 tracker sheet (you can print this and stick it below the Stage 2 tracker sheet if you wish)
Interesting Case Studies
On completion of Stage 3 …
When you’ve completed this stage, send us a photograph using the form on this page and we’ll send you some goodies to say Thank You and CONGRATULATIONS on achieving Plastic Clever School status..
Any questions or feedback, please do get in touch.
Thanks again for your amazing work!
Thank you for completing Stage 2 Raising Awareness!
We’re so glad that your school has worked hard to raise awareness of single-use plastic and plastic pollution. You are now just one Step away from reaching Plastic Clever School status. Whoop! You’re amazing!
Your ongoing commitment against plastic pollution gives us hope that one day single-use plastics will be eliminated whenever and wherever it is possible..
So, please carry on your amazing work and complete Stage 3.
Use the form below to submit some of your photos and work to show how you have tackled the BIG 4, and we’ll confirm your Plastic Clever School status.
Other BIG 4 resources
All schools that register on the Plastic Clever Schools initiative receives a free set of educational resources, and even more when they reach Plastic Clever School status. Sign up here:…
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Join teenage activists Amy and Ella Meek on their mission to rid the world of single-use plastics in this practical book, perfect for budding eco-warriors.
Be Plastic Clever will teach young activists about the dangers of plastic pollution and climate change, but also to help them find their voice. Amy and Ella want their book to help young readers shout about the issues they are passionate about and inspire them to become young activists in their own right.
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Use this PDF to find out about single-use plastics – plastic items that are used once and thrown away soon after. NB. This PDF is an extract from Amy and Ella’s…
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Allport Cargo Services We’re delighted to announce Allport Cargo Services have achieved Plastic Clever Business status! Ramona is proud to have formed a dedicated and passionate team tasked with developing…
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We’re delighted to feature some useful tips and advice for schools looking to reduce their plastic consumption from Georgeham Primary School in Devon. Download the PDF below. Well done everyone…
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We’re pleased to announce that Bambin au Naturel has achieved Plastic Clever Business status! Camille and Jean at Bambin au Naturel, are proud to have a plastic free workplace stating...
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Safe Opportunities offer structured employability pathway programmes to help young people transition safely from school into workplace. We agree that this is such an important time in a young person's life and we welcome them onto the Plastic Clever Business initiative.
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Huge congratulations to Town Lane Infants for achieving Plastic Clever School status! The work that pupils did was nothing short of outstanding; so rich, colourful and creative. You can just tell they had so much fun learning.
We were so impressed that we wanted to use them as a great example of what can be achieved. We've included some of their photos too so you can see the exhibits the children worked on.
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Here are five easy ways you can reduce how much single-use plastic you use.
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The Wastepack Group provide compliance services to companies that have a legal obligation to comply to regulations regarding their packaging waste. We were delighted to make contact with them and look at how we might collaborate with them in the battle to raise awareness of the issues associated with single-use plastics.
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Big corporations that use billions of tonnes of single-use plastic a year globally are a BIG part of the single-use plastic disaster, but as this video shows, when shareholders demand…
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Working Gedling Borough Council In 2018, Kids Against Plastic presented their vision of a Plastic Clever Council to a full council meeting at the Gedling Civic Centre. It was well received...
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A Powerpoint presentation made by students of Haydon Eco Club. The students created and used this as part of their KS2 / KS3 Transition Project. For more information about the…
Read MoreWhen ATAG (Air Transport Action Group) invited Amy and Ella to speak about single-use plastics at the Global Aviation Sustainability Summit in Geneva in October 2018, the Kids Against Plastic…
Read MoreThe Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day)
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A pdf – perfect for use as a poster – showing some easy ways to reduce the amount of plastic waste you generate in your everyday life.
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Use one of your t-shirts to make a customised bag for life that no-one else will have. Download this PDF, it has all the instructions!
DOWNLOADAmy and Ella recorded this video a couple of years ago when they were invited to speak in schools around the UK but couldn’t make it. The girls might look…
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Because of their commitment to reduce plastic waste as a company, as well as a service provider, Devon Norse have been recognised them as a Plastic Clever Business.
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David Luke make Eco school uniforms from plastic bottles, turning waste into up cycled stylish and practical clothing. This film shows how they now have the ability to make sweatshirts, cardigans,…
Read MoreSee how plastic bottles can be recycled and what they can be turned into.
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Could reusable water bottles with built-in purification filters offer more than just a travel solution? Would their use reduce the number of plastic bottles sold and littered? Find out more…
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A big well done to Abbotskerswell Primary School, who’ve got in touch to let us know about the great work that they’ve been doing! Some of the Year 6 students...
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We’ve all been told that we should recycle plastic bottles and containers. But what actually happens to the plastic if we just throw it away?
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The Plastic Bank is a for-profit social enterprise that makes plastic waste a currency to help reduce global poverty while stopping plastic from entering the ocean.
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Sky News looks at a new project that could help tackle the global plastic pollution crisis. But is this the solution to replace single-use plastic bottles? Take a look and see what you think.
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Be Plastic Clever We all have a part to play in contributing towards turning the plastic tide. In our TEDx talk at Exeter, Kids Against Plastic set out their Plastic…
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A case study and guide for becoming a Plastic Clever Guide or Scout Group. Thanks to Hannah Marsh and the 1st Thatcham Guides, we have just made available a case study and activity guide for any Scout or Guide group wanting become Plastic Clever.
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Plastic by numbers (facts and figures) by Will McCallum, head of Greenpeace UK Oceans.
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A KS1 lesson guide to develop writing skills within a range of different text types, including: poetry, persuasive writing, newspaper articles and more.
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An excellent video by Algalita a non-profit organisation dedicated to the protection of the marine environment. The video covers plastic (as a material) the issues associated with plastic pollution, and some…
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A resource to support the lesson guide 'Water Bottles - lesson guide'.
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A KS1 lesson that helps pupils to identify different types of plastic: single use vs reusable, and the skills associated with using data to answer questions and persuade.
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A zip file of posters (made by Kids Against Plastic) of the BIG 4 single-use plastic polluters that feature in the top 10 of ocean pollutants.
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Plastic pollution pictured along the coast of Wadi El Gamal national park, Marsa Alam, Egypt. Credit: Cherie Bridges
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One of the solutions to the plastic problem is Youth Social Action - engaging and activating a generation of young people to make a stand against issues they are not happy with, and doing something to improve them. Be Plastic Clever is an example of Youth Social Action, or Activism.
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Will McCallum, head of Greenpeace UK Oceans, gives us his five steps to becoming plastic free.
DOWNLOADWhat is the coffee cup levy? And what do people think of it as a solution to reducing the amount disposable coffee cups we use?
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Plastic is amazing. Drink bottles, buckets, bags and cutlery – you name it, plastic is everywhere. It’s strong, durable and takes ages to break down. But whilst that’s great in some ways, that’s also a problem. Plastic in the ocean not only effects marine wildlife, it is also having an impact on us.
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An infographic showing 10 statistics about bottled water consumption.
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We’re pleased to be able to say that our fully compostable reusable rice husk coffee cups are now in stock.
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